The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-27
gUROi'E'S CROP OUTLOOK
DECIDEDLY DISCOBRAGING. "a,
PECIALLH IN ENGLAND,
The Prevailing Sen tIment One Of
Constant Klcting Against
the TaFiR.

| iePoito VI tho COnullOn OF European
crops are not of a favorable character.
The Department OF Agriculture, AZ Ia
well known, keeps it's paid agents in
Ill the European countries, and
receives from them FREQUENT
reports OF the condition of II
crops. Those just received are
lar from favorable in their tone.
There is q marked absence Of bar
vest promise throughout Europe, and
nowhere is this more mtiked thsn in
England. The times have been out
OF joint since Move mbor, and the
Queens Jubilee found the average
farmer in Respondent mood. Prac-
tically speaking Englsnd hes had no
spring. AS 1t stands t. day the harvest
must be late and small. The same
thing may be said with regard to the
condition OF crops in France. The
late reports of the French Depsrt-
ment OF Agriculture somlt that
the spring and winter wheat
crops arc badly of. The weather
has beon cool, and the rain
soaked ground has not had the sun.
Shine needed to push along the crops.
Rye and barley are suffering, too, and
so are the vineyards In Germany
there is similar complaiat-frequens
rsine, but cool weather and bsek ward
crope. Ia Austro- Hungary the crops
suffered tram hallstones and inunSa-
tions. In Italy the weather has been
exceptionally cold, and the crops are
correspondingly backward. In Russia
the weather hiss been a little more
favorable, but in many eases the lack
OF good seeds has made the crops
poor On the whole the outlook is for
an increased demand in Europe for
American GRAIN next yeay.
THIS TARrvF KIcKS4s.
There is probably no brsuch of the
governmental eervice against which
there is 80 mach and 60 constant
Kicking" az against tho enforcement
OF the tariff lgws. There tsems TO be
q general OpineCn that theTs Ia no i'm
in eyndipg the payment 81
tariff " At il possible to do. 10. The
result 10 that tho mails arriving at the
Treasury Department are buidened
with complaints shout the en-
lorCement Of the tariff law,
and constant and determined efforts
TO evade II. Go into the room of the
chief officer of the Customs Bureau
any day and y will find upon Ia
be, laid ont for the benefit Of The press
Or Others who may desire TO zee them,
4 stack OF decisions blythe depa tment
IN regard TO customs cases. they are
nine'tenths Of them appeals by ship.
pers against decisions of collectors.
Your average importer seems to
.hink it 10 his first duty 10 fight on his
customs charges, and IL ID q duty
which be never negleCts, apparently.
HiH appeals are often based on the
most trihing points and tie most alb
'urd construction. Of the law. OF
course In such cases he 10 promptly
,verruled, but that don't seem to en-.
larass him in The slightest
legree, for he comes up smiling
n the next round with some equal
y absurd proposition or appeal, only
% be knocked out again. In nine
Eases out OF ten the Department sus-
aims the ruling OF the collector. III
natural that IL should be 30, for his
with the customs laws
isually enables him TO render proper
lecis ons in the first case. Sometimes,
however, his decisions arc overruled
~ the Department, and the appeal Of
he "kicker" sustained.
IMPORTED DREAD FOR TEE FRENCH.
A curious story comes to the De-
,artment Of Agriculture from France.
the French tariff on wheat
vas put up, away mp, for the protec-
ion Of the farmers Of that country.
A curious result OF this has been the
Importation OF bread on which there
8 no tariff. The neighboIing ooun-
ries, espe cially Belgium, are ship
,irg in bread in immense guam
itiee, made from wheat upon
which no tariff 10 paid, aud the
Iade 10 proving 30 profitable that p'a-
1arations are being made by the h
gan bankers TO extend their busin y
n this line very greatly.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES IN THE sou Il
A curious development Of the y u
ew years Ia regard TO the producit la
II the Southern States is nolsS
acre. The struck farming" which
was held in such Conte npt
~ the old cotton and sugar growers
II the South is proving very pr, ia.
Die industry. The possibility Of pro-
lucing in the section bordering on the
1uli all the veg, tables and fruits for
able use during the winter months,
md having them ready for Northern
sbles at time of the year when they
isnnot be produced elsewhere, rem
lors this q very profitable BUSH
less. The possibility Of getting 81
,er dozen for oucumbers and
arly tquashes, ~ per gallon for
So per barrel for onions
md sweet potatoes, 10 cents apiece for
abbage and three times that for cauli-
lower, 500 per acre on rsdishes and
ther articles in proportion has
pened the eyes OF the farmers Of that
ection, and the increase In the mum.
'er OF market gardeners in the South
las been quite as wonderful as the
ortunes they are making.